Coming out for the first time Waiting for the stars to shine The air is cool, the night is still It’s another mile to that old sign hill Through all the hard times I will be with you Through all the hard times I will be with you Through all the hard times I will be with you Through all the hard times I will be with you Coming out where I belong Before this, my whole life was wrong Airplanes dot that ancient sky And I’ve never felt more alive Through all the hard times I will be with you Through all the hard times I will be with you Through all the hard times I will be with you Through all the hard times I will be with you And I’m not afraid anymore I’m not afraid anymore I’m not afraid anymore I’m not afraid anymore I’m not afraid anymore I’m not afraid anymore I’m not afraid anymore I’m not afraid anymore Through all the hard times I will be with you Through all the hard times I will be with you Through all the hard times I will be with you Through all the hard times I will be with you

Just 18 in the long hot spring of 1945 On the beach of Yugoslavia, I’m fighting for my life I push back the greatest evil that the world had ever known But the thought that keeps me up at night was how far I am from home Writing letters by the moonlight Drinking whiskey, with the radio on late at night Dreaming of the time I return On those American shores again While I’m watching a sky full of bullets and fear Wondering how many among us would be anywhere but here I send pictures home to the girl I love never expecting a reply I call her name late at night with tears in my eyes And someday when I’m old and grey I’ll see those pictures again How they’ll remind me of the memories, the enemies and friends The tragedies of history, kept forever in time And someday my wife’s name will be the last thing left in my mind I’ll step out into the moonlight Get in my car, go for a drive somewhere late at night Dreaming of the time I returned To these American shores again But now I’m watching a sky full of bullets and fear Wondering how many among us would be anywhere but here I send pictures home to the girl I love not expecting a reply I call her name late at night with tears in my eyes Writing letters by the moonlight Drinking whiskey, with the radio on late at night Dreaming of the time I return On those American shores again While I’m watching a sky full of bullets and fear Wondering how many among us would be anywhere but here I send pictures home to the girl I love not expecting a reply I call her name late at night with tears in my eyes

Late at night When this mountain town is sleeping I send you a good morning text to the future, cross the sea And every time When the morning sun is rising I open up my window and you’re the first sent back to me I wanna dance with you In the misty English moonlight I wanna drive with you Cross the sunny skies of blue And I can’t wait till the day When I’m finally by your side But ‘till then, I’ll always be dreaming of you When I cry And my mind it can’t stop racing And I feel like I can’t go on living every day like this I close my eyes And I see the dream we’re chasing All the pain and all the heartache would be worth it for your kiss I wanna dance with you In the misty English moonlight I wanna drive with you Cross the sunny skies of blue And I can’t wait till the day When I’m finally by your side But ‘till then, I’ll always be dreaming of you And this old world that set us both eight thousand miles apart Don’t mean a thing next to the universe with in our hearts I wanna dance with you In the misty English moonlight I wanna drive with you Cross the sunny skies of blue And I can’t wait till the day When I’m finally by your side But ‘till then, I’ll always be dreaming of you ‘till then, I’ll always be dreaming of you

Maria lights up the last of the pack, a black nearly burned out cigarette She swallows a Xanax and rolls her head back, takes a shot and tries her best to forget As the sun rises over the west coast of Florida she turns away and then she starts to cry She’s got the biggest heart and the sharpest mind, but only tears in those faded eyes Maria, oh Maria Can you see me cry? When your high fades away with the dawn of the day Did you mean what you said with your head in the sky? I drive a few miles back to her parent’s house and she stands angelic in the light And every breath we take brings us closer to the end of our night My heart is racing, my head is pounding, my soul is filled with love But I know it’s a lie, and we say our goodbyes Cause I don’t know if it’s her or the drugs Maria, oh Maria Can you see me cry? When your high fades away with the dawn of the day Did you mean what you said with your head in the sky?